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by Philip Balsam & Dennis Lee.
Don Mills, Muppetmusic/manufactured by CBS Records Canada, 1983. issued in 2 variants:
a) CC-7985o; 11-7/8" black vinyl 33-1/3 RPM phonodisc with 4" circular white bond labels printed 4-colour process offset, in 12 x 12 plain clear matte plastic dustjacket in 12-1/4 x 12-1/4 white glossy-covered brown cardboard sleeve printed 4-colour process offset;
b) CCT-7985o; black gridded plastic 4o min.CrO2 audiocassette, both sides printed gold spongeprint, with 4-1/16 x 4 white rectogloss card J-card, 6 panels, printed black offset both sides with 3-colour process addition recto, in 2-3/4 x 4-1/4 x 5/8 plain hinged clear plastic CBS box.
cover graphic unacknowledged.
musicians unacknowledged [Michael Francis (Guitar), Dave Goelz (vocals), Jim Henson (vocals), Richard Hunt (vocals), Bernie LaBarge (guitar), Bob McLaren (drums), Kathryn Mullen (vocals), Jerry Nelson (vocals), Frank Oz (vocals), Ray Parker (keyboards), Karen Prell (vocals), Dick Smith (percussion), Tom Szczesniak (bass), Steve Whitmire (vocals)].
17 contributors ID'd:
Phil Balsam, Michael Francis, Dave Goelz, Jim Henson, Richard Hunt, Bernie LaBarge, Dennis Lee, Bob McLaren, Kathryn Mullen, Jerry Nelson, "B.P. Nicol", Frank Oz, Ray Parker, Karen Prell, Dick Smith, Tom Szczesniak, Steve Whitmire.
Nichol contributes:
i) MUCK AND GOO, music by Phil Balsam; performers as above (1:1o, side 2 track 3)
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see also:
• Fraggle Rock Sing-Along Book Vol. 1, 1983
• LOS FRAGUEL, RCA, 1984
• 2nd cassette edition, Columbia Records, 1987
• THE BEST OF Jim Henson's FRAGGLE ROCK, Enjoy The Toons, 2o16
• ____ picture disc variant, Enjoy The Toons, 2o16
Have become disatisfied with my design for the Kraken cover, am going a different way with it.
More minimal. Stronger palette.
Sound Barrier – The story of high-speed flight, by Neville Duke and Edward Lanchbery 1953.
Neville Duke and Edward Lanchbery were test pilots who flew never-before tested aircraft in the jet age.
Published by Cassell & Co. London. 118 pages 13cm x19cm with dustjacket.
Very nice quality, though I do not have an Asuka to compare this to. One of the pages had a slice down through a portion of it where it ha been bound incorrectly. I called WHCC and they QUICKLY remade a replacement. Called them Tuesday when mine arrived and the replacement was in my hands by Friday morning. I was impressed. The dust jacket is on photographic paper and is very heavy and almost a plastic coated feel to it, but I like it. Not a slippery slick type of dust jacket like most books have.
Sound Barrier – The story of high-speed flight, by Neville Duke and Edward Lanchbery 1953.
Neville Duke and Edward Lanchbery were test pilots who flew never-before tested aircraft in the jet age.
Published by Cassell & Co. London. 118 pages 13cm x19cm with dustjacket.
Cutwork book jackets. The insert on the inside can be turned over to the other side for a different look. Once the coil notebook inside is filled up, it can be swapped out with a new notebook. These ones are for 4X6" notebooks.
I used some of the same mesh designs here that I developed for my travel soap bags.
John Glenn is a former U.S. Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut and United States Senator. He was selected as one of the "Mercury Seven" group of military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA to become America's first astronauts and fly the Project Mercury spacecraft. On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission and became the first American to orbit the Earth and the fifth person in space, after cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov and the sub-orbital flights of Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom. John Glenn returned to space on October 29, 1998, at age 77, aboard the space shuttle Discovery. [Source: Wikipedia]
If all goes well at the printer, this will be the (not very secret) reverse dustjacket cover for the hardcover edition of John Kessel's The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories (4/08).
This is another example of a clear pvc dustjacket, but shows how we can weld pockets to the front also for Business cards, membership cards and other items.
John Glenn is a former U.S. Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut and United States Senator. He was selected as one of the "Mercury Seven" group of military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA to become America's first astronauts and fly the Project Mercury spacecraft. On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission and became the first American to orbit the Earth and the fifth person in space, after cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov and the sub-orbital flights of Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom. John Glenn returned to space on October 29, 1998, at age 77, aboard the space shuttle Discovery. [Source: Wikipedia]
Project Gemini was NASA’s second human spaceflight program, conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo. It started in 1961 and concluded in 1966. It was an enormous undertaking, involving awesome risks, and set the stage for the last and greatest adventure in the U.S. space program, Project Apollo. “Appointment in the Sky” is the story of the men and machines of Project Gemini as told by Sol Levine, the deputy technical director of the project. Published in 1963, in the midst of Project Gemini, Levine describes its origin and purpose, the special training of the pairs of astronauts who participated, and the minute-by-minute procedures of the flight, the rendezvous in orbit, the uncoupling and the re-entry. It is filled with detail about space flight. President Lyndon Johnson wrote the Foreword to the book.
Sound Barrier – The story of high-speed flight, by Neville Duke and Edward Lanchbery 1953.
Neville Duke and Edward Lanchbery were test pilots who flew never-before tested aircraft in the jet age.
Published by Cassell & Co. London. 118 pages 13cm x19cm with dustjacket.
The Public and Private Life of Books.
edited by Jason Camlot & J.A.Weingarten.
Waterloo, Wilfred Laurier University Press, [may] 2o22. ISBN 978177112568o.
6 x 9, 76 sheets white bond folded to 3o4 pp in 19 signatures of 4 sheets each & glued into plain ivory heavy bond endpapers with 3/4" black cloth appliqué head- & tailbands in 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 straw cambric-covered boards printed black letterpress spine only, interiors all except 7 pp printed black offset, in matte PVC white dustjacket with 3-7/8" flaps printed 4-colour process offset recto only.
cover sculpture by Brian Dettmer; photographer unacknowledged.
13 contributors ID'd:
Cameron Anstee, Nicholas Bradley, Jason Camlot, Anna Dysert, Sherrin Frances, Emily Kopley, Alberto Manguel, James Maynard, Linda Morra, Meaghan Scanlon, Andrew Stauffer, Bart Vautour, J.A.Weingarten.
includes:
i) jwcurry's Room 3o2 Books: The Small-Press Bookstore as Library and Archive, by Cameron Anstee (pp.21o-226; prose in 5 parts with references to bpNichol in parts:
–1. "Sometimes at the impetus of small-press agents, sometimes due to scarcity," (pp.21o-211)
–2. The Minor Archive (pp.211-214; with reference to Nichol in quote by Gregory Betts, p.214/footnote 14 (p.225), from The bpnichol.ca Project: An Archive for Ephemera)
–3. Room 3o2 Books (pp.214-219; with quotes by curry on Nichol from
––a. a bpNichol cyclopœdia B (p.215)
––b. "dec 98 Carl Spadoni:" (p.218))
–4. A Beepliographic Cyclopoedia (pp.219-224; with quotes by curry from
––a. in support of A Beepliographic Cyclopoedia (pp.219-22o
––b. A Beepliographic Cyclopœdia: A Gallery Of Rectos In Progress (p.221))
–5. NOTES (pp.224-226))
v) Bibliography, compiled by [the editors?] (pp.239-256; includes 3 references to Nichol p.24o (Betts), 242 (curry x 2))
Published by the Ministries of Agriculture & Fisheries, during the second world war. I saw it in Broomhill Oxfam, Sheffield.
Collects Reed's plays for the BBC Third Programme: Leopardi: The Unblest (1949), Leopardi: The Monument (1950), The Streets of Pompeii (1952), Return to Naples (1950), The Great Desire I Had (1952), and Vincenzo (1955).
Left to Right, Top to Bottom: 1. Antique French Spools of Thread, 2. Low Volume Bundle, 3. Liberty Chevron Quilt, 4. Lace Pillow Cases 5. Lumimarja-Marimekko Fabric, 6. Blue and White Irish Chain, 7. White Work Bee Embroidery Kit, 8. Vintage Blue and White Quilt, 9. White Blankets, 10. grey and white herringbone quilt., 11. Custom Baby Quilts, 12. modern low volume blue cross quilt, 13. Churn Dash Quilt, 14. Green Improv Quilt, 15. Low Volume Cushion 16. Tali's Quilt
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Eurobook, [1978]. Reprint. Hardback with pictorial dustjacket. 156 pages including index. ISBN 0856540293. Condition: Good.
This book tells the stories of the old gods and heroes of Europe. These are the gods the Vikings worshipped before the coming of Christianity: one-eyed Odin and Thor, the thunder god, Tyr, Frey and Freya, Loki the mischief-maker and many others. The Viking explorers spread their stories far and wide and the gods are still remembered here in many place names and in the days of the week.
The story starts when King Gylfi of Sweden journeys to the home of the gods to find out the secrets of the univers. Once there, he discovers not only how the world was made, but also learns about the exciting adventues of the gods and heroes and about the evil monsters they fight to overcome.
Twenty-four colour paintings and over fifty line drawings bring the people and events in the stories to life and a full colour map shows the world the Viking knew.
BookCover for the Swedish edition of Peter Temples "Truth". Hardcover with dustjacket. Three color printing, Hexachrome yellow, Silver 877 and matte black.
From Publishers Weekly:
The death of a nameless prostitute in a glitzy Melbourne high-rise is the first in a series of crimes that Insp. Stephen Villani discovers are all tied to protecting the interests of the city's elite in this brutal tale of corruption, greed, and revenge from Australian author (and Ned Kelly Award–winner) Temple (The Broken Shore). Burdened by a shaky marriage and an increasingly rebellious teenage daughter while trying to stay afloat in Melbourne's treacherous political climate, Villani doesn't know where to turn. The discovery of three savagely tortured men with ties to one of the city's biggest crime bosses only adds another layer to the already twisted case, and makes Villani question eve-rything he thought he knew about the line between cop and criminal. Temple's elliptical storytelling—the past and the present are often interchangeable—fits the slippery subject of deeply ingrained police corruption and one man's determination to uncover the truth. (May)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
“The exciting adventures in space of John Bullard, greatest of science fiction adventurers.
“John Bullard was born on Terra, in the ancient district of Ohio, in 3915, and his story is science fiction in the tradition of fine storytelling. No bugeyed monsters of the ‘space operas’ here, but the adventures of a clever man, not physically outstanding in any way, who passed almost unnoticed from the Patrol Academy into the Service, there to become the almost legendary hero of the space fleet.
“Keeping the peace of the inner and outer planets was no easy job. It fell to Commander Bullard to put down the rebellious criminals long since banished to the other planets, to fight in grim wars which encompassed not the nations of our time but the planets of the universe, and to cut through the red tape of Terra’s bureaucracy. His clever use of the extraordinary machines and weapons of a future age brought him a fame unequaled among the mariners of deep space.
“As a hero of science fiction, Commander Bullard has no equal. His fantastic, often humorous, but always logical adventures have long been favorites of science fiction addicts.” [From the blurb on the dustjacket]
1966-1976.
by Wayne Clifford.
Toronto, Coach House Press, 1979. 5oo copies.
5-3/4 x 7-3/4, 74 sheets ivory zephyr antique laid perfectbound into plain white heavy mayfair card wrappers, interiors all except p.143 printed black offset with brickred additions both sides of endleaves, in 5-7/8 x 7-13/16 ivory coarsewove card dustjacket with deckled foreedges, 4-1/4" front & 3-1/4" rear flaps, covers & spine only printed black letterpress.
cover & 32 interior graphics by David Bolduc.
rear cover by [bpNichol].
Nichol contributes:
i)) An Ache In The Ear WAYNE CLIFFORD (prose blurb on rear cover)
“Silence surrounded William E. Robinson. As Chung Ling Soo, Robinson remained quiet, onstage as well as in public, hiding the truth of his American nationality behind his Asian persona. His sad death brought final silence to this master magician.
“He was ‘the man reputed to know more about magic than any other living person,’ in the awed words of Howard Thurston in ‘My Life of Magic’ (Baltimore, 1929).
“But when the magician dies, his magic vanishes, too. The old props might come alive in the hands of another performer, the antique posters may still proclaim his miracles, but never again can an audience directly experience the man himself creating magic for them.
“This book is my attempt to hear the words of Robinson’s silence, if only faintly. . .” [From the Author’s Introduction]
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William E. Robinson (1861-1918), better known by his stage name Chung Ling Soo, was an American magician who gained international fame by impersonating a Chinese conjurer. Born in New York City, Robinson began his career in vaudeville, performing various acts including impersonations and magic tricks. Inspired by the success of the Chinese magician Ching Ling Foo, Robinson adopted the persona of Chung Ling Soo, complete with a fabricated backstory.
Chung Ling Soo’s performances were known for their elaborate illusions and daring tricks. He gained a significant following in England, where he performed extensively and became a household name. The bullet catch is one of his most famous tricks and involved catching a bullet fired from a gun in mid-air, which captivated audiences due to the inherent danger. Tragically, it was also the trick that led to his untimely death in 1918, when the apparatus malfunctioned during a performance in London.
Robinson’s legacy as Chung Ling Soo remains a fascinating chapter in the history of magic, highlighting both the allure and dangers of stage performances in the early 20th century. His story continues to captivate magic enthusiasts and historians alike.
[Sources: Wikipedia, Britannica.com, and Archives.shef.ac.uk]
by Philip Balsam & Dennis Lee.
Don Mills, Muppetmusic/manufactured by CBS Records Canada, 1983. issued in 2 variants:
a) CC-7985o; 11-7/8" black vinyl 33-1/3 RPM phonodisc with 4" circular white bond labels printed 4-colour process offset, in 12 x 12 plain clear matte plastic dustjacket in 12-1/4 x 12-1/4 white glossy-covered brown cardboard sleeve printed 4-colour process offset;
b) CCT-7985o; black gridded plastic 4o min.CrO2 audiocassette, both sides printed gold spongeprint, with 4-1/16 x 4 white rectogloss card J-card, 6 panels, printed black offset both sides with 3-colour process addition recto, in 2-3/4 x 4-1/4 x 5/8 plain hinged clear plastic CBS box.
cover graphic unacknowledged [Michael Frith?].
musicians unacknowledged [Michael Francis (Guitar), Dave Goelz (vocals), Jim Henson (vocals), Richard Hunt (vocals), Bernie LaBarge (guitar), Bob McLaren (drums), Kathryn Mullen (vocals), Jerry Nelson (vocals), Frank Oz (vocals), Ray Parker (keyboards), Karen Prell (vocals), Dick Smith (percussion), Tom Szczesniak (bass), Steve Whitmire (vocals)].
17 contributors ID'd:
Phil Balsam, Michael Francis, Dave Goelz, Jim Henson, Richard Hunt, Bernie LaBarge, Dennis Lee, Bob McLaren, Kathryn Mullen, Jerry Nelson, "B.P. Nicol", Frank Oz, Ray Parker, Karen Prell, Dick Smith, Tom Szczesniak, Steve Whitmire.
Nichol contributes:
i) MUCK AND GOO, music by Phil Balsam; performers as above (1:1o, side 2 track 3)
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• Fraggle Rock Sing-Along Book Vol. 1, 1983
• LOS FRAGUEL, RCA, 1984
• 2nd cassette edition, Columbia Records, 1987
• Fraggle Rock Soundtracks test pressing, 2o16
• THE BEST OF Jim Henson's FRAGGLE ROCK, Enjoy The Toons, 2o16
• ____ Think Geek variant
• ____ picture disc variant, Enjoy The Toons, 2o16
The art of the dust jacket: A Christchurch Art Gallery exhibition Central Library Peterborough. Sunday 1 June 2014. File Reference: 2014-06-01-IMG_0170
Photo by Donna Robertson.
From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries
First edition, with "First Published in April 1939" on copyright page and first edition notice on front flap of dust jacket. 8vo., publisher's heavy grain decorated beige cloth. A near fine copy in like dustjacket, bright, clean and fresh. Housed in a tailor made leather spined case. Inscribed by the author to the front flyleaf:
"For Jules and Joyce and also Joan with love John Steinbeck."
Beneath the signature is one of Steinbeck's irreverent flying pig sketches (or "Pigasus" if you prefer), generally an indication that the recipient of his presentation was a close and valued friend,or someone he held in high esteem. In this case it was Jules Buck, and Joyce Gates, with their young daughter, Joan. Jules Buck started out as John Huston's camerman for his wartime documentaries (”Winning Your Wings", "Let There Be Light" etc.) and then grew into an influential producer, both in the US and abroad. Although having a sketchy working relationship with Huston, they reportedly fell out over Huston's anti-Semitic behaviour (Huston later referred to Buck as "My body servant" which is obviously super healthy). He collaborated with Steinbeck on the screenplay of what would end up as Elia Kazan's "Viva Zapata", although uncredited, and later produced "The Killers", "The Naked City" etc. before shifting to Europe to escape the Hollywood witch hunts, founding a production company with Peter O'Toole (Keep Films) and producing such wonders as "Under Milk Wood", "The Day They Robbed The Bank of England", "Lord Jim" and "What's New Pussycat" Joyce Gates was an actress in various small, often uncredited, roles in movies like "Kismet", and their daughter Joan is a notable journalist, writer, and all round renaissance woman by all accounts; at one point the London correspondent for Warhol's "Interview" magazine, the only American to have been editor-in-chief of French Vogue, and the subject of Tom Wolfe's "The Life and Hard Times of a Teenage London Society Girl.", later published in "The Pump House Gang." She started studying acting in 2002, and appeared in Nora Ephron's "Julie and Julia", later writing about the experience of auditioning for Ephron. She fell from grace after Vogue published a decidedly lightweight and grievously ill timed interview with Asma al-Assad, wife of Bashar al-Assad. Frankly they seem fascinating, but basically the point is that Steinbeck knew them very well, and liked them, and inscribed his sad, slow, strange, dust-bowl novel to them. A really gorgeous and interesting association copy of an undeniably great book.
The career of the distinguished type designer, prolific dustjacket artist and scholar, recognised by his v&a exhibition at 75, & reissued as a prelude to his centenary celebrations in 2005. The Merrion Press. Cover design by Phil Cleaver and Sue Shaw.
This is essentially a complete reprint of the 1980 catalogue published by the V&A, with a new introduction by John Bodley.
119459 DAUMIER, Honore.
HUMOURS OF MARRIED LIFE.
Introduction, catalogue & notes by Professor Philippe Roberts-Jones.
Boston Book & Art Shop. 1968. Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 161pp. b/w plates. Fine. 1st ed.
$36.00 AUD plus postage.
by bpNichol.
Toronto, Coach House Press, [february] 1967. a stated 5oo copies numbered in brown letterpress on colophon sheet.
6 fascicules in 7-1/2 x 8 x 9/16 heavily-textured mauve card slipcover glued to 2 brown boards with 2 white glossy card labels fornt & rear, 6-1/16 x 6-9/16 printed black & blue offset:
1) BORDERS ; 7-1/4" circular black vinyl 33-1/3 RPM flexidisc with 2-1/2 x 2-1/2 white gummed bond labels printed black & lime offset on each side, in 7-1/2 x 7-5/8 white rectogloss card folder with 5-3/8" inner lip glued down at left, a further 3/8" lip at right folded & glued to make a,pocket, covers & inside flaps printed black (silkscreen?) over light olive finish, interior contents printed black letterpress; cover photo by Andy Phillips;
2) COLD MOUNTAIN a kinetic poem/sculpt for eventual distruction ; 4-1/4 x 4, 5 sheets white wove folded to 2o pp but with centersheet reversed (folded at foreëdge), side-stapled twice in selfwrappers, interior sheets graduated sizes (4-1/4 x 15/16, ~ x 1-5/8, ~ x 2-7/16, ~ x 3-7/16), all printed blue offset rectos only, rear half versos only;
3) JOURNEYING & the returns ; 4-3/4 x 7-13/16, 28 sheets dark grey coarsewove perfectbound in plain blue mayfair board wrappers glued at spine into dark grey coarsewove dustjacket with 3-1/2" flaps, jacket printed black & blue offset recto only (flaps black only, rear cover blue only), interiors printed offset in sections of grey (7pp), turquoise (4pp), olive (6 pp), green (1opp), cobalt (12pp), bluegrey (11pp), acnowledgements olive & Coach House logo red, with Margaret Avison's A Letter, 4 x 7-3/16 white textured parchment card broadside printed black offset, laid in; cover photograph by Andy Phillips;
4) Letters Home ; 7-1/2 x 7-9/16, brown kraft pocket printed red offset recto only with 13 fascicules:
--a. "answer"; 7-3/8 x 3-1/4, cream manila card broadsheet printed black offset with lower right corner clipped diagonally;
--b. "bp"; approx.4-15/16 x 4-1/4, die-cut silver mylar-faced black mayfair card broadsheet;
--c. "Drrrrrrrrrrr"; 6-1/8 x 4-13/16, single sheet grey textured card foldd at right to form a 3-13/16 front flap, printed red, blue & black offset recto only;
--d. "milkmmiillkkmmiillkk"; 4 x 7-9/16 white chromecoat card broadside printed cream offset;
--e. Mind trap; 6 x 7-1/2 white chromecoat card broadside printed black offset;
--f. "orgy"; 7-1/4 x 7-11/16 purple peterborough broadside printed offset in metallics copper, cherry, purple & blue;
--g. "OWL"; 6-1/2 x 4-1/16 white glossy card broadside printed orange, red, turquoise & black offset;
--h. "pane"; 4-3/8 x 5-15/16 blue mayfair card broadside printed turquoise & cobalt offset;
--i. "precarious"; 11 x 14 brown wove broadside printed black offset, compound folded twice to 5-1/2 x 7;
--j. "O BENT SEVER HALL"; 13 x 7 olive laid broadside printed blue offset & folded to 6-1/2 x 7;
--k. to a Loved One; 5-5/8 x 7-15/16, cobalt bond broadside printed pink offset & compound folded twice to 5-5/8 x 4, in approx.6 x 4-1/2 cobalt bond envelope with triangular gummed flap top rear, printed pink offset recto only; concrete poem beginning "dear deanna";
--l. towards a poetry of shy sounds; 3-1/8 x 5-1/16, single sheet pale green herringbone safety paper folded twice vertically to 6 pp leaflet with 2-5/16" front panel, all except center panel verso printed black offset;
--m. "turnips are"; 3 x 7 orange peterborough card broadside printed black offset;
6. WILD Thing ; 3-1/8 x 2-1/8, 24 sheets red mayfair card folded to 96 pp in 12 signatures of 2 sheets each, bottom-stapled in copper, all printed black offset rectos only except 2nd & 3rd & last 5 leaves;
7. "Acknowledgement for previous presentation of these works to"; 6-5/8 x 3-11/16 canary mayfair board broadside printed brown letterpress.
cover photo by Andy Phillips.
other contributions by Stan Bevington, Wayne Clifford, Victor Coleman, Dennis Reid, Kog Reid, Clark Steabner & others unID'd.
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* please see individual fascicles for complete contents
Two works from a Uniform Edition.
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle 1859–1930, British adventure, detective, and historical novelist.
‘Sir Nigel’, 1st ed. 1906; this Uniform edition 1947, John Murray Ltd.
Ryder, cover art – possibly John Ryder, 1917-2001, book designer.
‘Micah Clarke’, 1st ed. 1889; this Uniform Edition 1948, John Murray Ltd.
Philip Simmonds, active as dustjacket artist from at least 1933, but no other information available.
I've posted here before about recycled paper and card being used in the publishing industry because of paper shortages (Kellogg's) and here's another, even more astonishing, example of recycling. This time it's the dust jacket. On the outside it's the mild mannered, pious, non-fiction After Confirmation but its secret inner identity is The Iron Way, an adventure novel sporting a cover featuring ruffians with a gun beating up a railway signalman.
The inside is here:
I spotted this second-hand selection in Pitlochry Station Bookshop. The Companion Book Club was well-known in Britain in the 1950s. My father had a membership and a new book arrived each month. I don't know if he ever read any of them but eventually I took an interest. Apart from the Gerald DurrelIs, I don't recognise any of the titles here but it's the dust jackets which stick in the memory and scream 1950s. (By the 1960s, each book had a jacket specially designed for it.)
The Public and Private Life of Books.
edited by Jason Camlot & J.A.Weingarten.
Waterloo, Wilfred Laurier University Press, [may] 2o22. ISBN 978177112568o.
6 x 9, 76 sheets white bond folded to 3o4 pp in 19 signatures of 4 sheets each & glued into plain ivory heavy bond endpapers with 3/4" black cloth appliqué head- & tailbands in 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 straw cambric-covered boards printed black letterpress spine only, interiors all except 7 pp printed black offset, in matte PVC white dustjacket with 3-7/8" flaps printed 4-colour process offset recto only.
cover sculpture by Brian Dettmer; photographer unacknowledged.
13 contributors ID'd:
Cameron Anstee, Nicholas Bradley, Jason Camlot, Anna Dysert, Sherrin Frances, Emily Kopley, Alberto Manguel, James Maynard, Linda Morra, Meaghan Scanlon, Andrew Stauffer, Bart Vautour, J.A.Weingarten.
includes:
i) jwcurry's Room 3o2 Books: The Small-Press Bookstore as Library and Archive, by Cameron Anstee (pp.21o-226; prose in 5 parts with passing reference to Lefler p.214 in part
–3. Room 3o2 Books (pp.214-219))